2025-07-26
One of my guilty pleasures is doom-scrolling on Instagram. I'm not overly proud of it, but it's not all bad as I do find some inspirational gems from time-to-time. One of those gems has been Caro Kelleyhttps://www.instagram.com/carokelley/, a musician living in Germany who often posts about her quest to listen...
2025-01-04
I read a lot of books in 2024 at least a lot for me that is. Reading was a big part of my year as I strived to replace much of my media consumption with books. Here, in no particular order, are my 5 favorite fiction and non-fiction books I...
2023-07-20
I've written about how to fix social media before but with the giants like Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter looking like they're begining a steep decline it seems like the perfect time to revisit the topic. There is a lot of talk about the "enshitification" of the...
2023-06-16
I really don't know where to begin with this post so I'm just going to start writing and see where it goes. 1 1/2 years ago on December 17, 2021 my older borther committed suicide. Unfortuneatly, this was not an altogether unexpected result. Rodd had suffered from bouts of depression...
2020-09-14
I've been working from home for almost 6 months now and as a programmer I spend a lot of time with headphones on listening to music. As such, lately I've really been itching for something new for my ears. Thankfully, as a subscriber to his newsletterhttps://austinkleon.com/newsletter/ I stumbled on Austin...
2019-12-31
My Biggest Accomplishments Running a Half Marathon and Getting Myself into Better Shape I may arguably be in the best shape of my life right now thanks to deciding late in 2018 that I wanted to run a half-marathon in 2019. It was a goal that, at the time, seemed...
2019-08-16
You screwed up? Someone screwed you? Now you find yourself in a situation you couldn't have imagined just moments ago? Are you angry? Feeling bad for yourself? Beating yourself up or blaming someone else for your problems. You know what? Maybe it's not your fault. That happens sometimes. But here's...
2019-08-11
I've noticed over the past year or so of my life that my days really blend together. As I'm approaching middle age time seems to be flying by and I feel as though I'm missing out on life a bit. I've been asleep at the wheelhttps://jonwhite.me/life/2019/08/02/turn-off-the-auto-pilot.html so to speak and...
2019-08-02
Sometimes in life we're stuck in auto-pilot and don't even realize it. One day bleeds into the next which bleeds into the next week, then month, then year. We're surviving, living each day just to make it to the next. Wake up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, prepare...
2019-05-14
On Sunday April 28, 2019 I completed my first half-marathon. Before that day I had only run in a 5k “fun run” once before and other than that, I had not really run at all since middle school. Looking back at where I started 7 months earlier I’m sometimes amazed...